Fall
term
Sept.
7:
Introduction
Sept.
10-12:
Form
and Content:
Blake,
The Marriage of
Heaven and Hell
Debating
Rights
Sept.
14:
“The Rights of
Man”: Burke,
from Reflections
on the Revolution in
France; Wollstonecraft, from A
Vindication of the Rights of Men;
Blake,
“A Song of Liberty”
Sept. 17: Paine,
all selections from The
Rights of Man; Robinson,
“January,
1795”
Sept. 19: Coleridge,
“Fears in Solitude” (BLS)
Sept.
21:
“The
Rights of Woman”: Wollstonecraft,
from A
Vindication of the Rights of Woman;
Barbauld, “The Rights of Woman”
Sept. 24: Barbauld,
“Washing-Day”; Smith, “On Being
Cautioned...”
Sept. 26-28: Coleridge,
“Christabel”
Oct. 1-3: Blake, Visions of the Daughters of
Albion
Oct.
5: Slavery and
Servitude:
Kitson, “Race” (BLS); Barbauld, “Epistle
to William Wilberforce”
Oct. 8: University
Closed.
Oct. 10-12: Blake,
from Songs of
Innocence and of Experience:
“The Little Black Boy,” “The
Chimney Sweeper” (both), “Holy Thursday”
(both), “The Human Abstract”; October
12:
QUIZ #1
Oct. 15-22: Godwin,
Caleb Williams
Some
Romantic Modes
Oct. 24:
The Gothic:
translation of Bürger’s
“Leonore,” Ellenore
(weblink on BLS);
Robinson, “Haunted Beach
Oct. 26-29:
Coleridge, “Rime of
the Ancient Mariner”
Oct. 31:
“Some
Versions of Pastoral”: Wordsworth,
all selections from Preface to the Lyrical
Ballads (1800)
Nov. 2: Wordsworth,
“The Thorn,” “The Idiot Boy”;
ESSAY #1 DUE
Nov. 5-9: “Lines
Written a Few Miles above Tintern
Abbey”; two poems chosen from the Lyrical
Ballads by the class (there will
be a vote to choose the poems in class).
Nov. 12: University
Closed.
Nov. 14-16: Parody: The
Case of the “Rime”: Odoherty,
“The Rime of the Auncient
Waggonere” (BLS); Hood, “The Demon-Ship”
(BLS); November
16: QUIZ #2.
Nov. 19-23: Sensibility:
Baillie, “Introductory
Discourse” and De
Monfort
Nov. 26-Dec. 3: Multiple Modes:
Fenwick,
Secresy
Winter
term
On Literature:
Writers as Readers
Jan. 7-9: Coleridge,
“Kubla Khan”;
Robinson, “To the Poet Coleridge”
Jan. 11: De
Quincey, “On the Knocking
at the Gate in Macbeth” and “Alexander
Pope”
Jan. 14: Coleridge,
“To William Wordsworth”; P.B.
Shelley, “To Wordsworth”
Jan. 16: Keats,
“On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once
Again”; January
16th:
QUIZ #3
Jan. 18-21: Keats,
letters of 22 November 1817, 3
February 1818, and 3 May 1818;Byron, all excerpts from st. 1-72 of
Canto I of Don
Juan
Jan. 23-25: P.B.
Shelley, selections from A
Defence of Poetry; January 25th:
Research Proposal and
Bibliography due
Elegiac Variations
Jan. 28: Smith,
selections from Elegaic
Sonnets
Jan. 30:
Wordsworth, “Elegiac
Stanzas”
Feb. 1:
University Closed.
Feb. 4-6: Wordsworth,
“Michael”; James
Orr, “Elegy, On the Death of Mr. Robert Burns, Ayrshire
Poet” (BLS)
Feb. 8-11: P.
B. Shelley, Adonais
Feb. 13-15: Keats,
“The Fall of
Hyperion” and “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
Division
and Reunion
Feb. 18-22: Gothic:
Byron, Manfred;
Feb. 20: QUIZ
#4.
Feb. 25-Mar. 1:
Study Break
Mar. 4-8: Carleton, “Wildgoose
Lodge” (BLS); Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, “The
Mortal Immortal”
Mar. 11-13: Myth:
Keats, “Hyperion”; March
13: ESSAY #2 due
Mar. 15-18: P.B.
Shelley, Prometheus
Unbound, Preface and Act I
Mar. 20-22: Romance:
Keats, “The Eve of St. Agnes”; LEL,
“The
Bride of Lindorf” (BLS)
Mar. 25-Apr. 1: Pharmaceutical:
De Quincey, Confessions
of an English Opium-Eater
This is
the End...
Apr. 3-5: Byron,
“Darkness”;
Blake’s America
(text; images);
review.
Apr.
8: QUIZ
#5.
